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Word for Today: March 23

I believe we have missed the point somewhere.

Religion has formed opinions and manufactured definitions of what church is. I wonder if church is today what it was in the first century? I wonder if we did today what they did in the first century… would we qualify as ministers…. Or churches… or Christian assemblies? Would it be acceptable? Would it fit in our specified scheduled service times? What would happen?

Perhaps we have become acclimated and accustomed to contemporary activity we call “church” and maybe it is not church at all… at least not church in the sense of the New Testament definition.

Does God wonder what we are doing? Maybe we should re-evaluate what we do on the Lord’s Day and what happens on Sunday and then compare it with Scripture and see if it is really church or not.

Much of what we call “church” is not church at all. It may qualify as a “meeting” but it certainly is not “Church.” Our first question after the services should be “did we have Church? Or did we just have a meeting.” Many services in many churches would go right on without the Holy Ghost showing up and many would never know the difference.

Church is not church if nothing happens.

Church is not church if shock waves are not sent through hell. (Remember the “gates of hell” thing?

Church is not church if people in church can sleep right through it.

Church is not church if it does not engage with God.

Church is not church when everything is planned and orchestrated by professional religious personnel.

Church is not church if there is no excitement. No movement. No action.